American Experience

- Season 25

(2013)

Based on the best-selling book by Drew Gilpin Faust, this film will explore how the American Civil War created a "republic of suffering" and will chart the far-reaching social, political, and social changes brought about by the pervasive presence and fear of death during the Civil War.

The stories of the major figures of the pre-American Civil War political movement to eliminate slavery.

The divide between North and South deepens, touching off a crisis that is about to careen out of control.

The battle between pro-slavery and free-soil contingents rises to fever pitch.

HENRY FORD paints a fascinating portrait of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century.

SILICON VALLEY tells the story of the pioneering scientists who transformed rural Santa Clara County into the hub of technological ingenuity we now know as Silicon Valley.